COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3910, 28 August 1874, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Thursday evening. The amount of Customs Revenue received to-day on goods entered lor consumption was as follows: — _ . £ s. d. £ s. d. Brandy .. .. 40 10 11 Tobacco .. .. 72 7 6 Whisky .. ..82 9 Tea .. 31 0 2 Geneva.. .. 1C 10 0 Sugar .. .. 75 9 2 Wine .. .. 17 9 0 Drapery.. ..210 0 1 Total .. £471 9 7 Messrs J. akd A. Maclean report, for the week ending 27th Aug., as follows:— Fat Cattle.—9o head were yarded at the weekly market on Wednesday, only a few head being prime quality, the greater proportion being very inferior the prices realised being, for bullocks, from £0 to £11: cows, from £5 to £10. Two very fine bullocks realised £17 and £18 respectively. On Tuesday last, the 25th instant, we held a sale of fat cattle at the farm of Donald Borrie, K<fj , West Taieri, when we sold 43 head, at prices ranging from £10 10s to £15 per head. We quote prime quality beef.; 30s to 32s (id per lOOlbs ■ medium and inferior, ;:0s to 255. ' Fat Sheep.—The supply of this description of stock was unusually large on Wednesday, about 2300 were penned, nearly all good quality; the number being considerably over the requirements of the trade, about 1300 were turned out unsold. Merinos realised' from 9s to 14s each ; cross-breds, from 15s to 21s. Our Bales consisted of 100 cross-breds at jur highest quotation. We have also sold and delivered privately during the week 500 at full Market rates. We quote prime cross-bred mutton, 4d to 4id per lb; do merino, 3idto3|d. ' Fat Calves.—A. few were penned, which realised from 30s to GOs each.

Store Cattle.—We have no transactions to report for the week, but have enquiries for cattle deliverable next month> when we anticipate a good demand. We quote good, well-bred, and grown bullocks £4 10s to £o ; cows, •£2 10s to £3 10s ; mixed herds, 40s to 60s, according to breeding and condition. Store Sheep.—We have buyers for young sheep of various sorts, but few are offering. Transactions in this description ef stock we might say are now over until after shearing. We quote half-bred ewes, in lamb, 14s to ltis ; wethers, Us to 13s; lambs, 8s to 9s ; merino wethers, 7s to 8s; full-mouthed ewes, 6's 6d to Ts.

Wool and Sheepskins.—At our weekly sale on Friday last we sold several odd lots of wool at full market rates; also a large number o£ heavy-wooled sheepskins, at from .'is (id to 5s 9d; dry station skins, from is to 5s each, according to weight.

Hides.—The demand is improving, and any lots of prime salted heavy weights are readily placed at from 19s to 22s 6d each ; median), 15s to ISs. During- the week we have placed privately and at auction severe]

lots at above quotations, also 2SO calfskins, at 3s 3d each.

Tallow.—Only a few casks of medium quality were catalogued, which realised £2S 10s per ton. Grain, &c.—The market still remains quiet, and quotations are unaltered, viz.: —Prime samples wheat, •is o'd to 4s i)d ; medium and inferior, 4s to 4s 3d ; milling samples oats, 4s (id : feed, -Is to 4s (id. At our sale at Mr Donald's Uorrie's on Tuesday last, wo sold 123 sacks of oats at from 4s (id to 4s Yd per bushel; CO sacks ryegrass seed at from 5s 3d to 5s Ud per bushel. We also sold at our Rooms, last Friday, a lot of prime Taicri potatoes at £6 15s per ton.

POST OFFICE NOTICE. 11.4 ILS CLOSK— Tins Day, Fiuuay, August 2Stii. For Northern Ports of New Zealand, per Albion, at 12 noon. Saturday, August 20th. For Timaru, Lyttelton, Christchurch, and Westland, per Beautiful Star, at 4 30 p.m. Monday. August 31st. Per s.s. Tanirua, as under : — Direct mails for India, China, Japan, Penang, Singapore, Manilla, Aden, Mauritius, the British, French, and Austrian Post Ollices at Alexandria, Malta, Gibraltar, Brindisi, France, &c, at 12 noon. For New South ■ Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, at 1 p.m. For Southland, Victoria, London, via Southampton, and via Brindisi, and for correspondence for the Continent of Europe, &c, sent in London mails, at 1.30 p.m.

For issue of money orders, and posting of registered letters and newspapers, at 11.30 a.m. Late letters, with one additional single rate per letter, may be posted as follows :—

For Now South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, at 1.30 p.m. For Southland, Victoria, London, via Southampton, and via Brimlisi, and for correspondence for the Continent of Europe, &c, sent in London mails, at 2 p.m. All mails close at Albany street Branch Office 10 minutes prior to the advertised time of closing at Chief Post-office. (Signed) ARCH. BARR, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Dunedin, August 28th, 1874.

ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION. This Day. M'Laxdress, Hki'uitiin, and Co., at their Rooms, Manse street, at noon—Groceries, chinaware: on the premises, High street, at 2 p m. —Household furniture, piano, &c. Wjiitklaw and Co., at their Rooms, Rattray streetGeneral merchandise, boats, fire-engine, &c.